Welcome to nanomsg

The nanomsg library is a simple high-performance implementation of several “scalability protocols”. These scalability protocols are light-weight messaging protocols which can be used to solve a number of very common messaging patterns, such as request/reply, publish/subscribe, surveyor/respondent, and so forth. These protocols can run over a variety of transports such as TCP, UNIX sockets, and even WebSocket.

Quick Build Instructions

These steps here are the minimum steps to get a default Debug build. Using CMake you can do many other things, including setting additional variables, setting up for static builds, or generation project or solution files for different development environments. Please check the CMake website for all the various options that CMake supports.

POSIX

This assumes you have a shell in the project directory, and have the cmake and suitable compilers (and any required supporting tools like linkers or archivers) on your path.

% mkdir build

% cd build

% cmake ..

% cmake --build .

% ctest .

% sudo cmake --build . --target install

% sudo ldconfig (if on Linux)

Windows

This assumes you are in a command or powershell window and have the appropriate variables setup to support Visual Studio, typically by running vcvarsall.bat or similar with the appropriate argument(s). It also assumes you are in the project directory.

md build

cd build

cmake ..

cmake --build . --config Debug

ctest --config Debug .

cmake --build . --config Debug --target installNB: This may have to be done using an Administrator account.

Static Library

We normally build a dynamic library (.so or .DLL) by default.

If you want a static library (.a or .LIB), configure by passing -DNN_STATIC_LIB=ON to the first cmake command.

POSIX

POSIX systems will need to link with the libraries normally used when building network applications. For some systems this might mean -lnsl or -lsocket.

Windows

You will also need to define NN_STATIC_LIB in your compilation environment when building programs that use this library. This is required because of the way Windows changes symbol names depending on whether the symbols should be exported in a DLL or not.

When using the .LIB on Windows, you will also need to link with the ws2_32, mswsock, and advapi32 libraries, as nanomsg depends on them.